Innovation and urban mobility in Brazil

摘要

"What is the city but the people?" asked Shakespeare in Coriolonus. All city planning focuses on people and the quality of life. The big cities in Brazil took shape from the 1950s, when the country's population amounted to approximately 52 million inhabitants, only 36.2% of whom lived in cities. The development focus during the post-war period, led by the modernist canons that guided the conception of Brasilia, spread across numerous cities where the automobile was the leading actor, and was supported by investments all over the country to build roads and other infrastructure, such as ports, railroads and electric power plants.